I know, it's still a single-digit percentage of the market share, but I wish GOG would finally give us an official GOG Galaxy version for Linux. Yes, I can integrate my GOG account with Lutris, which is fine, I guess, but steam manages to grab my fickle attention with their app easily, including tempting me to waste money on DRM-proteced game licenses where the games aren't even owned by me 😞
So far, Valve hasn't abused that, and they have been amazing for Linux gaming, but it does not feel great, knowing the fundamentals there are what they are.
Other people have mentioned Heroic as another Gog client
Heroic is pretty much flawless for me. It flakes out less than Linux Steam, honestly. I'm looking at it right now, and it picked up all my GOG installs, it keeps them updated and it does support cloud saves on GOG, although it's in beta and they caveat enough to make you think twice.
Heroic works perfect on steam deck.
I gave up on GOG years ago. Not only do publishers who put their games on GOG treat the customrlers there as second class, but then GOG treats linux users as second class. So we're like. Fourth class. Sucks ass, man.
I wish Valve would move to New Zealand.
Being based in New Zealand would give Valve such an incredible glowup!
Do a merger with mega.nz
While I respect and use GOG occasionally there really isn't any competitor to Steam for its library, Greenlight, and Linux support. Also their CDN tech is bleeding edge and massive, not even the Publisher's shitty apps like EA could hold a candle to it. We're very lucky Valve isn't a malicious company, really fuckin hope there's some sort of long-term plan for their leadership post GabeN.
And while yes it is American made, it's at least from Washington so that's not as bad I guess.
My biggest issue with GOG is that its just missing so many modern games. Even kingdom come deliverance 2 isn't on it so I'm basically just forced to get it somewhere else or wait. The majority of games I currently play aren't on it.
At this point I'm just trying to buy games from gamersgate/greenmangaming to use on steam so at least part of the money goes to EU while still being able to do my hobby the way I want to.
KCD2 isn't on GOG yet, but is announced to be there in spring: https://www.gog.com/en/news/kingdom_come_deliverance_ii_is_coming_to_gog_this_spring Anyway, I get your point as you probably mentioned it as anecdotal example
Coming from an european. For software, use FOSS if you can.
I love Kamoot much better for exploring and doesn't create try hards trying to beat their PB's in a kids park
Last time I beat my PB in a kids park, someone called the cops
There's also BookWyrm for book tracking.
Which instance do you recommend?
I currently use the main instance bookwyrm.social, it seems to work fine. I've never tried any of the others so can't say really which is better.
Could someone please give me a reason not to use/promote bookwyrm?? It's fantastic and much better than any alternative I've tried.
Which instance do you recommend?
I use https://comelibros.club/, which is in Spanish (my mother tongue and in which I read things) but I think https://bookwyrm.social/ works quite well. You can consult other options at https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/
P.S. Think that it is federated, just like this, so you can follow and comment on things in profiles of other instances
OSMand is the best, it's FLOSS and the foundation that publishes it is UK-based. It also needs no cloud services and no internet access once you download the maps, which are freely available public data.
I like OSMand as well. Unfortunately, searching for addresses and POI's is sometimes not reliable enough. Guess I have to contribute by adding geo data to openstreetmaps eventually 😅
I like OSMAnd, and want to love it, but its public transport route finding is still very flakey for me, irritatingly.
Story graph is from EU? Nice!!
@Blaze For route planing try brouter.de/brouter-web/
If you want strava like features with only your real friends, endurain can be hosted yourself.
Strengthlog is a also a great fitness app from Sweden
The page is also hosted in France!
Hevy is great, no bloat, intuitive ui and no ads even on the free version. The best gym app I've tried.
Enjoyed it but was not able to use more since the free version only allows 6 custom exercises.
Been using Strengthlog and its great! (Sweddish)
opencaching.eu for geocaching.
AllTrails was so nice, sad I didn't thought they were American. I liked to find hikes with it and its map editor was nice.
Fitify is also European I think? Fitness app.
